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Old 07-31-2003, 12:54 AM   #1
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/usr/bin file permissions


Mandrake recently had a security issue regarding file permisions being set wrong on some files. I was curious, what should the permissions be on all the executables in /usr/sbin usually. I noticed several that looked like executable by others was set.
 
Old 07-31-2003, 12:37 PM   #2
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Most of the files will be set to -rwxr-xr-x and most of them will have root as owner and group.
You may want to restrict execute on some files, but not all.

If Mandrake issued a security warning, most likely they also released a patch. Use that instead.

In the end, most of the files are GUI software like Mozilla and the rest of them must be run as root.
Even if a user were to run one of these programs, they can't do anything, since all the configuration files (/etc) are only writable as root.
 
Old 07-31-2003, 09:16 PM   #3
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Thankyou, I did install the updates.
 
  


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